Use ‘impact agenda’ to prove value, social sciences urged
LSE scholars call for ‘shorter, better, faster, free’ studies and bigger share of research funding
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Social media key to getting ahead, PhD students hear
Skills, reputation and peer networks can be built online even when stuck in the lab
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Campus in Focus - Queen Mary, University of London
A fresh era dawns for one of the Russell Group’s newest, and least typical, members. Plus the latest campus news from around the UK
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A paper-thin line
The recent spate of plagiarism scandals in Germany – which have toppled some senior politicians – has had an unexpected side-effect. Some academic researchers are reportedly so frightened of...
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Austerity is driving institutions closer together
Mergers and system restructures are increasing across Europe as a result of funding cuts
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Call for better protocols to cut waste in biomedical research
Research conduct, reporting and management needs overhaul, says Lancet study
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Innovation’s core values
Britain needs Fraunhofer centres as well as Catapults if the ‘invention revolution’ is to materialise, asserts Tim Holt
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Ciaran Driver, Andreas Hess, Karen McAulay, A. W. Purdue and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I, by Richard Ned Lebow
Richard J. Evans considers the comfort of the counterfactual
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The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553, by Tamara Atkin
With the stage set for passionate religious argument, Helen Smith takes her seat
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Fragments: Transcribing the Holocaust, by Frances Rapport with Anka Bergman, Terry Farago and Edith Salter
Robert Eaglestone on an attempt to capture barbarism in poetry, not prose
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The Artistry of Exile: Romantic and Victorian Writers in Italy, by Jane Stabler
Jane Darcy on wanderers’ thoughts turning to home
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Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London, by Matthew Hunter
William Poole enjoys the insights but prefers his prose less florid
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Coming Up Short: Working-class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty, by Jennifer M. Silva
Angelia Wilson hopes for a turn against therapy and towards political engagement in the US
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Top 10 Wellcome trust grant-funded institutions
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge each secured about a 25 per cent rise in grant funding from the Wellcome Trust last year, according to the organisation’s annual report